River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-06-02
WISCONSIN NEWS.


preaching in three languages.
Several bears have been killed in the
7icinity of Sebastapol
Sturgeon Bay viii have farmers in
stitute June IA and Is.
Marinette has $50 electric lights in
operation.
About thirty Ripon college students
wear kniekerbockers.
There are only five prisoners in the
Langlade county jail.
Mrs. VIM. Farran, of La Crosse. aged
5Oyears, suicided by hanging.
The corner stone of a fine soldiers
monument was laid at Berlin Memorial
day.
The sixth annual reunion Of the She
boygan county soldiers viii be held at
Cascade, June Is
A little over 100000 gallons are
pumped each week by the Fond du Lac
water works.
Most of the tornado insurance com
panies refuse TO accept risks on tobac-
co sheds.
Wasau will be traversed by hve
different railroads before an another
year elapses.
Mrs. +. NJ. Calhoun, of Sparta, is a
recipient of pension, with about $3.50
arrears.
Henry Shran, living near Sheboygan.
committed suicide by hanging himself
to a wagon wheel.
The Central Wisconsin Veterans as
sociaticn will meet at Ripon in encamp-
Irent. june 21-24.
The German editors, of Wisconsin
will hold their annual meeting in
Appleton in June.
At Sheboygan Mr. Dubinus walked
into an excavation made for a eeller
and was killed.
A Polk county schoo-ma am walks
three miles MOI ming and night between
her school and boarding place.
A New London farmer raises Will
lows, which are peeled shipped to
Chicago and made into baskets.
The commencement OF haclne col
lege will begin on June % The class.
which numbers twelve. is unusually
large.
At Oxford, Marquette county. two
men claim they We're elected assesso
and both purpose to go on with their
work. Taxes are usually high enough
with only one assessor.
Mrs. Ash. of Brandon, is % years
old, retains full possession of her
faculties, and walks unaccompanied
about the village.
Mrs. Tolliver, plaintiff in suit brought
against the Central company. at Osh-
kosh, for $4,000 damages. has three
husbands living.
A Wausau manufacturer tarried too
long with wine and women in the bad
town of Hurley and was relieved of
$3.50 and a gold watch.
A new mineral water bottling estab-
lishment will be erected at Shebovgan.
with a capacity of 5000 lottles. or two
carloads, per day.
Jack Warburton has lsen holding a
series of protracted ten perance meet
ings at Tomah. and has induced 800
persons to sign the pledge.
Mrs. Frances Bicknell. of Edgerton.
recently celebrated the Tooth anniver-
sary of her birth. She was born in
Boston in 1883.
A drive well was sunk thirty feet at
Cranberry Center. near Necedah, and
a stream of water began to flow. rising
several feet above the surface o. the
gro und.
Farmers broke up teachers meet
ing in Kaukauna. one day last week.
because they thought the pedagogues
We're going TO vote tax on them to
raise money for new school house.
Deputy Internal Revenue Collector
j. II. Dockrey. of Green Bay. mp to
date. has collected $4,000 on special
tax stamps from brewers, saloon keep
ers and dealers in manufactured tobac-
/ COS.
The Mississippi river is still falling
at Cassville, and the water is now
scarcely nine feet six inches above ex-
treme low water mark. A number Of
raft-pushers are navigating the river.
but the travel on boats is greatly on the
decline.
The attempt of the government Off
cials to 90 up the Fox river to Portage
on the government steamer was fruit
less, they being obliged To give up the
trip at the head of Lake Packawa on
account of low water. Col. Fuller says
that the water is the lowest ne has ever
known this time Of year
A prominent tobacco grower of Rock
county said the other day hat the
average this year will be only from one
third to one-half of that in 1885 Plans
were made for a small acreage. and the
dry weather has killed All the plants,
so that there are not enough to set out
on the ground prepared for the purpose.
The Wisconsin Telephone company
has let contracts for number of new
lines, which win be built the coming
summer. Among them are lines from
Columbus to Portage, Waupaca to Ste
vens Point and Wausau. Grand Rapids
and Centralia to Stevens Point. and
probably New London to Shawano.
The chief industry of Kilbourne is
the expectation Of the trailing arbu-
tus. The flowers are made up into
boquets, tbs stems being wrapped in
moist cotton and tin-foil They are
then placed in boxes and mailed to al
parts of the United States. including the
south and California, arriving there as
fresh and fragrant as when gathered.
4 mysterious light seen nightly in
building at Rio, used as a morgue at
the time of the railway accident there,
causes superstitious people to believe
that the place is haunted. Two men
armed with shot guns recently eNamin-
ed the place at night saw the lights but
could find no traces of any person in
the place.
The Doctors Fee.
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